I attended LAMDA to study Stage Management and Technical Theatre having dropped out of an economics degree at Vienna University. A few years in Rep. followed and I worked at Chichester, the West End and the National before joining the BBC in the drama department in 1974.
 
Over the years I worked on a wide variety of major productions, mainly at the BBC, and learned at the hands of major talents.  Play for Today, Testament of Youth, Dennis Potter’s Brimstone & Treacle, Dr Who, Blake’s Seven even Blue Peter. Setting up EastEnders as a Production Manager gave me the opportunity to train and cut my teeth as a director.
 
I am fortunate to work pretty consistently in this business, which I still find enjoyable. With occasional forays into the corporate market and documentary work, I am best known for my work on popular drama and the soaps: Casualty, Coronation Street, My Parents are Aliens and most regularly, Emmerdale.
 
My outside interests inform the way I direct. Most actors get treated like the bees I have tended for 30 years or the plants I tend when gardening. I sail when I can and have made two Atlantic crossings. My wife, who is a teacher, fails to understand how I have the tact to cope with students when I teach occasionally at ALRA or elsewhere!